Austen Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer Download Open image “After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.” — Mary Ann Shaffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austen Be good Enough Good enough
“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“...all the great issues in human life make their appearance on Jane Austen's narrow stage. True, it's only the stage of petty domestic circumstance,… — ian watt Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Did Jane Austen ruin lives by giving people false expectations about love? Were her heroes just too good to be true? Could a real… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey, and I'm certain that he wouldn't think twice about eating an innocent bystander. I'll watch him closely at the next full moon. He's asked me to go dancing tomorrow--perhaps I should wear a high collar.… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share
Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then. — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world, but they… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“A sunny nature? A light heart? I have never been so insulted. Light-hearted is a short step from witless in my book. A cackling… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs. — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Thousands of those men and boys died here, and I have recently learned that their inhuman treatment was the intended policy of Himmler. He… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman Copy Share
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“...I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay.… — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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